A new pattern is emerging around my dream life…and I’m starting to like it a lot. I have always had vivid and complex dreams, using all my senses and remembering my experiences once I wake up. The recent change is that my dream life and waking life are starting to merge…one flows into the other so that all that is different is where I place my conscious attention.

This morning as I “woke up” I was already in a conversation with one of my Teachers, so I simply continued our conversation in meditation. In my dream I was very upset with an OB/GYN physician for his lack of understanding women’s health and needs. Every day I would go into the hospital to fight for the rights of the women and their needs. Needless to say, the relationship between me that the physician was highly strained. My Teacher was instructing me about this situation. Here is our conversation:

Teacher:…This is the full awakening of the heart…that you experience the fullness of joy in the soul when you do what is right for another.

Me: (after much thought) I don’t like that idea.

Teacher:Why not?

Me: (pause) Because…what comes to my mind when you say do what is right for another is that you are asking me to sacrifice me and my needs and what is right for me in order to help another. I don’t like this.

Teacher:Is that all?

Me: (pause) No…(pause)…Additionally, I feel that what you are saying is that I have the right to decide what is right for another and I do not want that responsibility. I don’t think that’s appropriate. How can I possibly know what is right for another?

Teacher:When you do what is right for another, you know in your heart because it is also right for you.

Me: (shaking my head) I feel this…I know what it is you are showing me and trying to convey to me, but it’s too easily misconstrued. There are so many people who feel that they absolutely know what is right and what is wrong and that it is their responsibility to make sure that everybody lives according to their definitions of right and wrong. Your statement seems to support this stance so I need more information. What do I say to those who are convicted in a belief and genuinely believe that what is right for them is right for another?

Teacher:In doing what is right for another, you first set your ego and personal agenda aside. In this you can truly see what the other needs…not what YOU need for the other. In doing what is right for another there is no righteous indignation on your part…only joy and unconditional love.

Me: Ahhhh…this feels much better to me. Thank you for that clarification. (pause) This righteous indignation concept is really speaking to me. I am seeing that every time I lash out in anger because I feel that someone is wrong and I need to correct that person, I am embodying righteous indignation.

Me: That it is amoral. It’s a tool…nothing more. And that sometimes it is very effective, but usually it doesn’t get me the results I want…or at least it takes a very long time to get the results I want if I choose that route.

Teacher:And what are the results that you want?

Me: Harmony…Collaboration…Support…Friendship…Love…Joy…

Teacher:Righteous Indignation doesn’t offer that?

Me: Noooooo. Not really. It separates people from each other. It sets one group up as “right” and another group up as “wrong” without offering the possibility that both are right.

Teacher:Yes. Very good.

Me: So…(hesitating)…how do I apply this to my physician situation?

Teacher:Become his ally.

Me: His ally? Are you kidding? I don’t like him. In what way, exactly, do you mean?

Teacher:Work with him to accomplish your goals.

Me: Ugh! But he won’t work with me! He’s so entrenched in his way of methodology that he can’t see that he’s ineffective.

Teacher:He sees. He just doesn’t know what else to do. He appreciates you, you know.

Me: He does?!

Teacher:Yes. Very much. He lacks vision and imagination and he knows it. He sees that you see very much and very clearly and he admires that in you. He’s willing to follow your guidance and work with you, but you are so blinded with your “right-ness” that you can’t see his willingness.

Me: Huh. (Long pause) Ok. I can see that I’ve been too hard on him…too impatient…too demanding without appreciation. I’m sorry.

Teacher:He doesn’t need your apology. He’s grateful that you are showing him new things and appreciates your fire tremendously. Let’s just channel it in a different way.

Me: Ok. So…you mentioned the word “Ally.” What does it mean to be an ally? Do I have to compromise who I am to be an ally?

Teacher:To be an ally you compromise form and structure without compromising principle.

Me: What principle?

Teacher:The principle of Love

Me: What is the principle of Love?

Teacher:The principle of Love is that all are equal. All are valuable. No one is better or worse than another. No one deserves more or less. All receive the blessings as they choose to, for the blessings are equally available to all…unconditionally. Simply being is enough of a prerequisite.

When you work as an ally, you begin from this perspective…this mindset…this heartspace. Recognize that this person, this being, this soul in front of you is equal to you in all ways…is loved by Divinity with the same ferocious passion as you are…that your breath and the other’s breath came from the same Source. And in that place of Source, there is joy…love…harmony…all is unified.

When you work as an ally, begin by finding the place where you two agree. Focus on that one point and expand it. Let the rest go. Release it…surrender it to the wisdom of Divinity for resolution, for there is a resolution, but you may not be able to perceive it in this dimension. Allow your gifts to flow together…to merge harmoniously for the sake of joining forces in order to accomplish more together than is possible separately. Feel your hearts connect from a place of love and acceptance.

If you cannot accept all, accept the one point that brought you together. Feel the harmony there. Collaborate in that place. When struggles arise between you and dissension increases threatening the alliance, return to this place of harmony and connection. Allow all else to fall away again in order for a new path through the struggle to be revealed.

Always allow the heart to guide you. The rational mind separates; the heart joins. The heart will never guide you to abandon self…only amplify the joys and love that already reside in that space. Allow the mind to learn from this…to be servant to this experience for it has become unbalanced and has lost its way…like a blind man trying to lead a seeing-eye dog. This was never its purpose.

Bringing the mind back into balance necessarily requires an abandonment of those beliefs that you hold dear. And yet if you truly listen to your heart, you know that these cherished beliefs cannot be right or true or honorable or from Divinity in their present form. Look for the purpose…the principle…the higher wisdom in this belief. Look for the ways this higher wisdom has been distorted through dogmaticism, structure, form, rules, restrictions, processes, rituals, promises of hope. See the truth, and allow that truth to resonate in your heart. Surrender the mind to the heart and the heart will retrain the mind…teaching it these higher forms of wisdom and understanding…giving insight to ancient teachings that heretofore had been unseen except by a few mystics.

Allow yourself to trust Divinity in ways never before experienced. For if Divinity is truly the essence and origin of Love, anyone on the path to Love is supported and accepted…guided, loved, and taught. There is no shame except as you create for yourself…no fear, except as you choose to perceive it…no judgement, except as you choose to hold it on yourself. Step forward in faith and joy, trusting that all is acceptable to Divinity.

Me:All is acceptable?

Teacher:Yes. In this you are not to judge for you have limited sight…limited understanding. Take your eyes off of others, focusing only on yourself and your journey…your thoughts…your heart. There is enough here to pay attention to without worrying or concerning yourself with the “rightness” or “wrongness” of another or the other’s thoughts, behaviors, and beliefs. That responsibility lies solely between that person and Divinity, just as your responsibility is solely between you and and Divinity. From this place of responsibility, all are equal, so work to make it so in your outer world, and let Divinity do the rest.

This is an ally, then. The joining and collaboration of souls in harmony and acceptance where this can be achieved in order to understand that all are equal…all are loved…all is acceptable. And your only responsibility to another is to work for equality in all things.

Me: Thank you for your teaching. I am humbled and challenged…and deeply grateful.

For many of us, the idea of an Oversoul or a Higher Self is not new or strange. We inherently feel a deeper wisdom within us and access it to some degree on a daily basis. Some people refer to their consciences, or their gut feelings, intuition, or some inexplicable knowing. All of these experiences are due to a connection with our Higher Selves/Oversoul.

Most of the time the benefits to such a connection have been limited to personal communication between aspects of ourselves. Our focus has been inward, which is appropriate as this develops an inner trust with Self…something that must be developed before any further steps can be taken. So we learn to pay attention to our feelings and thoughts and body sensations in every and all situations, for these are clues guiding us toward our greatest happiness…should we listen and choose to follow those clues.

There are, however, other applications to this same situation and existence. One application is to communicate from Higher Self to Higher Self. I have often referred to this type of communication in previous posts and if it has been confusing to you, I will attempt to give a bit more information here.

When you communicate with your Higher Self/Oversoul you are communicating between dimensions. Your Higher Self/Oversoul is a higher vibration than your personality in this 3D dimension on Earth. Therefore, it exists in a higher dimension…one that vibrates or has a frequency that matches and supports its existence. This personality of you in human form is unique and only exists once. It is similar to an arm of an amoeba temporarily sticking out for a time then retracting into the whole once more. Once your personality retracts to your Higher Self/Oversoul, you blend back into the whole again…the full you. Any previous or subsequent lifetime experiences will be configured with a different set of attributes from this full you…the Higher Self/Oversoul.

What this means then, is that in order to access all of your wisdom from previous lifetimes, you need to connect with your Higher Self/Oversoul, for this is where it is stored. This also means that any connections you have had with other souls will be remembered at this level/frequency. For example, when you meet someone who feels familiar to you, you are accessing this memory from your Higher Self/Oversoul…you know this person at a soul-level, which means you already know how to communicate with this person…at a soul-level.

This is a handy tool…particularly when communication is so easily garbled or broken in this dimension. Message sent isn’t always message received. In fact, most of the time it is pretty safe to assume that it won’t be received as we have sent it because of experiential filters, semantic understandings, and vocabulary acquisition (as starters). So, I recommend experimenting with a couple of strategies when communicating with other personalities in this 3D dimension.

The first strategy is to communicate with the Higher Self/Oversoul of the other person. You can do this with known and unknown individuals. For example, if I’m traveling by air I will always communicate with the Higher Selves of the people I will meet while traveling…particularly those in the security check points and the flight crew of my plane. I will also communicate with those who will be preparing my food and sitting next to me on the flight. I have absolutely no idea who these people are in this dimension…just that I know they exist and will be there with me. So I ask that we all work harmoniously together to create the highest and best good and joy during our time together.

For those people I know, I use this strategy particularly in challenging situations…where communication has broken down or is severely limited. This can be due to illness, separation, a misunderstanding, pain, power differences (such as boss/employee or student/teacher relationships). In these situations, I communicate my frustration or pain or anger or whatever I need to express to their Higher Selves…always asking my Higher Self to translate and add information as needed. In this way I know I am heard even if I’m not heard in this dimension. I also have the opportunity to receive information from the other person’s Higher Self…giving me wisdom or insight as to how to handle the situation or future conversations. Again, I ask that my Higher Self translates this information so that I can easily understand it and apply it.

The second strategy is the most enjoyable to me because it involves communicating with those who I not only love in this 3D dimension, but with whom I also communicate fairly well. This strategy is to communicate with this person in multiple dimensions simultaneously. For example, whenever I talk with my brother, our souls are always connected to each other through our hearts. What I cannot express in words I send through my heart to his. Our level of communication deepens considerably, and our understanding of the other increases dramatically with each conversation. This connection is now so strong and so familiar that all I have to do is think of him and he knows and receives my love and information…and vice versa. We can also now discern between a message of love and a message requesting help or support. Both often result in a phone call the moment the message is received, and our communication continues…simultaneously over the phone and through the hearts/Higher Selves/Oversouls.

The energy shifts that we are experiencing this year (and will be increased at the solstice this weekend) support this type of communication. We are gradually moving into a deeper and more telepathic form of sharing information between souls, and that includes souls that do not have body forms in this 3D dimension…such as angels, Guides, and our teams.

So, I invite you to begin consciously practicing this way of communicating with others (if you aren’t doing so already). Begin by thinking of the person or people you wish to communicate with. Then ask that only connections of love be established between your Higher Selves/Oversouls. Open your heart to your Higher Self and allow the Love to flow in and through you. Sometimes the other person’s Higher Selves may not want to connect with you. When that happens, you may not have actually connected with their Higher Selves…you may have tried to connect in a lower dimension. So, simply ask that the connection be established in the highest dimension where the love between your souls is strongest. When you feel the connection has been established, start talking. You can talk out loud or through your mind…all is received. If there are no words to express what you wish to communicate, feel it as strongly as you can and send that feeling. Then wait for a response…there will always be one. It may take a few minutes or a couple of hours, but it will always come. Continue the conversation for as long as you need to before completing. And, initiate conversations as frequently as you desire…in this format you will always be received and heard.

And this is where the fun begins. As you practice and experiment with this form of communication, you will realize many applications of these tools. You can communicate with governments this way…with entire regions of people…with all beings of a particular mind-set…with someone you just passed on the street who is crying. In these ways you make a huge difference. In these ways you shift the world…and heal humanity.

And while I think it’s a fascinating use of technology for targeting specific audiences, that wasn’t the application that first came to my mind. My perspective was much more universal in nature.

As designed, this image is actually two images blended into one. The image that you see depends on how tall you are. If you are taller than 4′, you see a different depiction of the face than if you are shorter than 4′. And yet to the uninformed, or the first glance, both people are seemingly looking at the same image.

This illusion is exactly what it’s like to live on this planet, Earth/Gaia.

Within any given space or place there are a multitude of layers or perspectives. Each of these layers or perspectives exists on a specific frequency, just like a radio station. These layers or perspectives are what I refer to as dimensions. They are existences or story lines or parallel lives that also exist around each living being. In essence, they are options…like choose-your-own-adventure stories.

So this begs the question, what is reality? Honestly, reality is whatever you experience…meaning reality is subjective. However, there is a higher reality…one that is seen from a higher perspective rather than a lower one. This is similar to the perspective of a flying eagle as opposed to the ant on the ground. The higher your perspective, the bigger the picture you can see and the more understanding you have of your role in the picture.

So then, how do you determine your perspective? By your frequency. Just like energy workers perceive beings according to their frequency, as discussed in this post, we as humans live a life determined by our frequencies. As each of us learn lessons and experience situations, we each have a choice. Each choice involves responses to the presented situation, and each choice that is made shifts the perception of reality either to a lower or higher perspective.

Therefore, it is entirely possible for two individuals to experience the same event and have two completely different realities on the situation. One might think that the situation is tragic, and another might think that the same situation is beautiful. This doesn’t necessarily mean that one perspective is more desirable than the other. It simply means that one person is experiencing reality differently than the other person due to his/her frequency and the lessons needed at the time. Both are valid. Both are real. Both are important and necessary. Both are true.

So, as you move through your life, I invite you to become aware of your choices, your options, your reactions, your frequency. This is something that takes practice and time to do, so be gentle with yourself in this process. It’s simply a matter of learning to see things in a different way, and then choosing the one that brings you the most joy, pleasure, light, and life. The more you choose a particular path, the more your reality becomes solidified in that perspective…and that dimension. Gradually, your entire life shifts into that perspective and dimension until there is nothing left of your old life and your old ways…except for other people who still need to experience that existence.

When that occurs, learn to recognize that this too is true and right and necessary and honorable. This person is learning, just like you, and experiencing the reality that is appropriate for him/her…just like you. Honor, bless, and support the other by living your life with integrity, personal responsibility, and unconditional love. Each time you choose this reality, you not only shift yourself, you shift humanity.

If you are energetically sensitive, chances are that you’ve explored a variety of writings, channellings, readings, and energy work by those connected to the unseen world. It doesn’t take a lot of exposure to realize that everybody sees things just a little bit differently. And while that really isn’t all that surprising (every set of eyes is going to see things differently than another), it can be a bit confusing. Some practitioners even go so far as to accuse other practitioners as being wrong, deceitful, or even worse. All this conflicting information or even dissension only creates more confusion until you are left with these two questions: Who can I believe? Who’s right?

In order to answer those questions, it’s important to understand how energy is read or how information from higher dimensions is received. Understanding this process will hopefully provide you with another tool for supporting your discerning abilities.

There are many different ways that people receive information energetically. The most common ways involve one or more of the five senses. These are termed: Clairvoyance (clear seeing/vision), Clairsentience (clear feeling/touching), Clairaudience (clear hearing/listening), Clairalience (clear smelling), Claircognizance (clear knowing), and Clairgustance (clear tasting). These abilities, contrary to popular opinion, are natural abilities…available for anyone to develop and experience if you so desire.

Most people have one way that works best for them…the way that is easiest and natural. Oftentimes it is so inherent that people don’t even realize that what they do naturally is a form of a higher frequency communication. My natural forms are Claircognizance (clear knowing) and Clairsentience (clear feeling/touching) with Clairvoyance (clear seeing/vision) developing. I’ve also experienced the others but they aren’t ways that are important to me at this point in time, so I’m not focusing on them yet.

However, learning the easiest path for information to come to you (or to an energy practitioner) is only the first step. One of the most important pieces of receiving information (not only in the higher realms, but also in daily life) is learning to discern the source of the information. Anyone who has done any scholarly research knows that not all sources are equal…not all are reputable, and not all are desirable. For any scholarly publication primary sources carry much more weight than secondary sources, and it often takes a bit of practice to learn to tell the differences…to discern the validity of information.

This discernment is quite important both when developing your own inherent Clair- skills and when working with someone with more developed Clair-skills. Very often, as people start to open their minds to the possibility of intuitive communication everyone in the unseen dimensions wants to communicate. But, honestly, not all of those “everyones” are helpful and not all messages are appropriate. So it is vitally important to energetically protect yourself, setting the intentions to only connect with the highest frequency beings of love and light.

When you do this you create a powerful filter that allows you to only receive messages from beings who have no ego, who have no agenda, and who only hold love and compassion for you. When you interact with these beings, your spirit feels lighter…more expansive…filled with joy and peace…empowered…filled with inner courage, reassurance, and love. If any experience leaves you feeling less than this (either through a personal experience or with a reader or other energy worker), you have connected with beings who are not at the highest frequency.

Similarly, learning how understand the information communicated to you requires practice and discernment. It’s just like learning a language, except this language usually comes in symbols or through illustrations or stories. Nothing is explicit, and there are lots and lots of layers to understand. A single word from one of my Guides can be so packed with meaning and insight that it can take a year to understand it enough to begin to apply its lessons in my daily life.

Additionally, what is true today, energetically, may not be true tomorrow. This is because everything depends on choices and focus of attention. Every choice you make and every thought you entertain and give energy go affects the potential outcomes of any given situation. Therefore, the most anyone can say about your future is that if your patterns and habits continue, the most likely outcome could be ____. If you made an unexpected choice tomorrow…a choice that isn’t predictable from your current patterns and habits…all of the outcome potentials change.

And even then, there are many layers to these potentials, and they all have to do with frequency…of the outcomes and the frequency of the person looking at the outcomes. Whenever a person tunes into the energetic grids and dimensions, he/she will automatically tune into the energy grids that match his/her frequency…even if you’re resonating at a different frequency. It takes a conscious awareness and intention to tune into higher frequency grids than your current frequency, and unless a practitioner does this, the information can be skewed even more (remember, interpretation always creates massive opportunities for skewed information).

But, even if someone does unconsciously match your frequency, there are the additional layers of potentials…the most likely outcomes and the highest potential outcomes. The most likely outcomes are those mentioned above…the outcomes that will probably happen if absolutely nothing changes in your life. But the highest frequency potential outcome is that outcome that could be…that potential for the greatest happiness, the greatest love, the greatest joy, the greatest abundance, the greatest freedom.

Of course this means that there are also lesser potential outcomes but why focus on those? You as a soul are not interested in anything less than the highest…that’s why you are here! The more one can live a life filled with his/her highest potentials, the more of an impact that life can have…both on the person living that life and everyone around him/her. Shifting your perspective from the layer of the probable or predictable outcome to the highest potential outcome completely changes things. Now you have the opportunity to see potentials that you may not have even known existed. This perspective automatically empowers you to choose…to consciously see a bigger possibility for changing your life in dramatic ways.

So, whenever you are working with energy…either on your own or with another practitioner…tune into your inner guidance system. Pay attention to your body and your soul’s responses to what someone is saying. Is this person speaking from a place of fear or love? Are you responding to their words by shutting down or bursting open in joy? Are you afraid to do anything on your own without this person’s advice or are you empowered to live your own life according to your own inner wisdom? Do you leave his/her presence feeling shamed and condemned or do you feel precious and loved unconditionally? Do you look down the road and feel a dull listlessness of predictability, or are you in awe, eyes wide, staggered at the vision of what might be…what could be…knowing it’s going to be a lot of work, and having absolutely NO idea how to get from here to there but also knowing that this is absolutely the way you want to go?

If so, this is your highest potential. This is where your focus will reap the greatest rewards. This is the frequency to tune into as you develop your Clair- skills. This is where your true power lies…your Higher Self…your deepest and most profound wisdom…your greatest protection…the deepest healing…the most potent shifts…the greatest opportunity for co-creation. And as you shift, energetically modeling to others how life can be, you shift humanity.

Notice that I’m not placing value on this habit…it is neither good nor bad to want. In fact, depending on the situation, wanting can be necessary to survival. However, if, like me, you have requested a life of abundance rather than merely surviving, this habit of wanting can be a tricky thing. It requires learning how to maintain a balance between requesting and letting go…aspiring to something and discovering unconditional happiness.

This concept of conditional happiness vs. unconditional happiness is a lesson I am learning at the moment. I am constantly surprised at all of the different people, events, circumstances, personal exchanges, and places that hold my happiness chips. Of course those chips didn’t just get there on my own…I put them there for whatever reason under a variety of circumstances.

The trick is to get them back to me, anchored into my Divine Line.

The challenge with this process is that I can give you a protocol for bringing your happiness chips back to yourself (and mine to myself), but unless the belief around happiness is addressed it won’t last. The belief? Some version of this: Someone or something else is responsible for my happiness.

I know I’ve heard all kinds of lectures about happiness and the keys to happiness and money doesn’t bring happiness and I am the only one responsible for my happiness, but it’s a very different thing when I’m faced with a challenging situation and I’m fully and completely triggered…upset…livid…hurt…betrayed…abandoned…bullied…accused unjustly…and the list goes on. It takes a lot of patience, practice, awareness, and self-compassion to take enough space in that intense moment to connect with my inner happiness…particularly if I really believe that this situation is in any way connected with my happiness.

When I do take a moment to connect to my inner wisdom, the first thing I’m asked is: What do you need? Because emotions have so many layers to them it may take me a while to figure out what my need is. Or, this may be a very familiar situation and I instantly know what my need is. I may need perfection or consideration or understanding or comfort or security or support or validation or connection or freedom. Once I figure out what the basic underlying need is, my inner wisdom tells me this: You are responsible for supplying that need for yourself. And this is the rub.

I really want the other to meet my need. It’s easier that way. It’s faster that way. I don’t have to work as hard that way.

Pulling all my energy off the want and back into my Divine Line can be one of the most difficult things I do that day…particularly if neither my body deva or my team want to do it either. Because a significant portion of my energetic reality is affected by these other consciousnesses, it really is important that we all work together on a shift…otherwise we’ll end up sabotaging each other.

So, in such challenging situations as these, I start with my team.

I ask that the Ascended Masters and Guides surround my team, modeling to them and teaching them how to hold their boundaries gracefully and bring their energies into their Divine Lines. Because they are all energetically also surrounding me, when my team shifts I automatically shift to match them. I am now supported in pulling my energy off of the wanting of a something or someone else to bring me happiness, and I can do this much more easily than I could without this shift. And, because the body deva’s Divine Line is connected to and parallel to mine, she too will shift to match whatever I’m modeling to her. Now all of our energies are within and in alignment with each other.

Then I ask that the Ascended Masters and Guides, still surrounding my team, show my team two things: how to connect with the unconditional happiness within, and how to meet the need within. And here’s a fascinating little twist…my team, made up of several different beings, each have their own needs in this situation. Some may have the same needs that I do, but some may not. So whatever needs they have in this situation must also be addressed separately from mine. And this is why it is such a great thing to have the support of the Ascended Masters and Guides…I don’t have to consciously know or teach anyone how to do it…because I’m the student too.

Once my team has shifted again to meet that need within themselves and connected with their inner unconditional happiness spot, it’s my turn. Their shift has again created a supportive space for me to more easily make this shift…even if I’m still struggling with the outward-focused belief.

The process begins by my inner wisdom asking me: How would you feel if this need was met in this situation? Depending on how triggered I am, finding this feeling might take a while. My energy may really struggle to stay within me. I’m so used to having it outside of myself and giving responsibility away that it just takes too much energy to keep it on myself for very long. I just keep trying. Eventually I’ll get it. When I do, I start feeling a thin thread of peace weaving through my emotional turmoil. I focus on that, encouraging it to grow. As it does, the turmoil lessens and my thoughts around the situation calm as well until all that I’m experiencing is this beautiful space of a need being met. The situation hasn’t changed at all…no one outside of me has done anything different, but my need is being met just as fully and completely as I was triggered moments ago.

Two things happen next: my body deva shifts to match me (adding to the blissful experience that is now coursing through my physical body), and I am now able to locate my unconditional happiness spot. I energetically plug into that spot, infusing that quality into my experience. Once again my body deva shifts to match me, and again we are all in alignment with ourselves and each other. In this moment of deep inner connection it doesn’t matter if someone is yelling or that my favorite dessert is sold out or that I didn’t get to talk with a friend today. My happiness is anchored within…allowing these situations to continue on without my involvement.

Then I express gratitude…for the assistance, love, and support from the Ascended Masters and Guides, for the support and love and shifting from my team, for the co-operation and connection with my body deva, and to myself for yet another opportunity to be aware, learn, evolve, and practice a skill. I ask that all reference points are updated…all ways of being, perceiving, and being perceived. I open my heart to receive love from Divinity, then I ask to be wrapped in sheets of rainbow light…gently sealing in these vibrations to whatever degree is appropriate to my spiritual evolutionary state. When all is complete, we bow to each other…for as we shift, we shift humanity.

As we move through the stages described this week, reclaiming our true identity, releasing stories that no longer support our growth and greatest happiness, and cleaning up from demolition, we are now left with a structure and support system that is no longer usable.

As I walked through the remains of the houses, it was clear to me that there had been at least three periods in the development of the structure. The first one was made from twigs. It was very temporary and unstable, but it was better than being fully exposed to all the elements. It was originally an emergency structure but because it was good enough, I used it for quite some time.

The second one was made from straw. This one was built around the twig house. It was significantly bigger than the twig house and made up the largest portion of the overall decaying structure. It was much warmer than the twig house and was such an improvement from the twig house that it was actually ahead of its time when it was built. This house lasted for a very very long time.

The third house was relatively new compared to the other two. There were only three rooms made from the rough wood, and they all were on the side of the house that could be seen from the street. The boards were quite wide…at least a foot across…and I got the feeling that I had put these rooms up in quite a hurry…similar to the twig house. Yet, it wasn’t for a physical emergency…it was for an emotional emergency. The purpose of this third development was so that I would appear to be good enough to those passing by on the street. It had been painted a similar Celadon green, but because the wood hadn’t been smoothed or cured, the paint chipped off easily. It was pretty clear that anyone who looked longer than a glance would know that this was a facade…and a poor one at that.

Walking through the houses, barefoot, I was keenly aware of the soil under my feet. The reason it caught my attention is because it wasn’t consistent with the state of things above it. Above ground, everything was old and decaying and neglected. But yet the earth was soft and fresh and newly tilled. It appeared that it had been regularly fed with compost and was teeming with life and potentials.

Someone had started to take apart the houses and decided that the materials could be recycled. Since they were all made from organic materials, they could be recycled directly into the earth, so they were turned into wood chips. By turning these structures into wood chips, I realized that my energetic foundations needed to be dismantled down to the building elements. As nothing in the Universe is ever thrown away, I was shown that this dismantling was for fuel…fuel for the soil…fuel for my future.

I was told that this dismantling of the houses and the chipping of their building materials wasn’t to be done carelessly or thoughtlessly. It was to be done in a spirit of awareness for where I’ve been, what I’ve done, and how my past has prepared me for my future. As I took down each piece that I once built, I was to express gratitude for all that this structure had provided for me…for all it had taught me…for all it had brought to me. I had spent a lot of time and energy creating it, and now I could change all that potential energy into kinetic energy to propel me forward.

The number I was shown in connection with this realization was: 123. In Doreen Virtue’s book “Angel Numbers” this number means “Simplify your life. Get rid of anything that’s pulling at your energy, time, or finances—especially anything that pulls you away from your life purpose. The ascended masters are helping you with this simplification.” But rather than “getting rid” of something energetically, allow it to be recycled. Allow anything that’s draining you to be released with gratitude and use the memories and the freed-up energy to feed you and nourish your dreams.

For this is what the soil represents…that tilled, fresh, soft, teeming-with-life, nourished soil. It had been tended and fed with all of the pieces from my life that no longer served me. Nothing was gone…it was simply repurposed in a different configuration. I could never lose anything I’ve learned…neither could releasing something ever be a permanent loss…it will always stay with me because it is a part of me. It will just return to me in a new way…with new layers…carrying more gems. Where once I had a house of twigs, eventually I will have a house encrusted with precious stones and metals. All I have to do is continually let go of all that has completed and no longer serves me…with gratitude…allowing those energies to be recycled…recreated into something even more exquisite.

So today I invite you to let go with gratitude…aware of all the things you’ve done, the places you’ve been, all that you’ve learned. Let go of all the structures and grids that supported you in all those accomplishments…not only grateful for the support that has been there for you in the past, but also for the promise that it will return to you in the future even more magnificent than anything you’ve experienced thus far. Trust that you never lose any part of yourself…that You are vast with endless potentials. Trust that this temporary loss is only serving to nourish you…feed you…prepare you to receive…thrive…flourish.

…mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing

I believe in intuition and inspiration…At times I feel certain I am right while not knowing the reason…Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world…

~Albert Einstein

This weekend I heard an old Shania Twain song. It had been so long since I had heard the song that I felt as though I was hearing it for the first time…all while singing along. As I did, I remembered an old favorite practice of mine…something I haven’t done in many years. I used to take my portable stereo into the bathroom, crank up my favorite album, and sing and dance along in the shower…completely uninhibited, fully expressing utter joy at being alive.

I also remembered how I felt after my shower was completed…I had tapped into a magical space…an inner source…a spark and joy of life which radiated through my entire presence and being. The rest of my day proved to be just as magical…every single time. I hit all green lights when driving, or I met amazingly kind, generous, and helpful people, or parking spots opened up exactly when I needed them, or an unexpected check arrived in the mail. Everything moved in beautiful synchronistic flowing ways according to my desires and needs…completely effortlessly. All I did was to first find this spark of creation within me.

I will be the first to admit that I am not a scientist. While I’ve taken classes in all areas of science, the only area that makes any sort of sense to me is physics. And even then the practice and science of physics doesn’t make as much sense to me as does the philosophy of physics.

For example, I remember staring at my high school physics teacher as he explained scientists’ conundrum with light…that it exhibited traits of both particles and energy. He concluded his presentation with the question: which is it? I responded with puzzlement at his puzzlement by stating, “Why does it have to be one or the other? It’s both.” He asked for proof. I said I didn’t have it and had no idea how it worked, but that somehow I knew that concentrations of light resulted in matter…pointing to Einstein’s equation as the source of this idea. I have no idea if my teacher thought I was crazy, but I knew I was right even if there was yet no way to prove it. I was delighted, though not surprised, a few years later to read that scientists had been able to prove my idea to be true.

As a musician, I find other physics-based philosophies. When two musicians are precisely in tune, the resultant sound they produce amplifies dramatically without either musician changing anything he/she is doing. When I tune a piano and strike my tuning fork, all the strings on the piano that are tuned to either that frequency or a frequency within the overtone series of that pitch resonates. From a philosophical perspective, these ideas have incredible implications when applied to our thoughts and manifesting.

It is from this perspective that I write this post. I cannot prove scientifically that the energetic frequency of my thoughts will cause resonance and manifestation elsewhere in the Universe. However, I know that the philosophy of this idea exists in physics, and my experiences have played out often enough to suggest this to be true: Whatever I think, feel, or dream will resonate across the Universe…all that has to be done is shift the frequency of that energy in order to manifest it.

Or…I shift my consciousness to match the frequency of that which I intend to manifest…by doing such things as singing in the shower, or hoola-hooping, or dancing on the beach, or attending a concert, or playing music, or gardening, or cooking, or composing, or painting, or hiking, or taking pictures. Whatever it is that allows me to tap into that inner creative spark is something that will raise my consciousness and being to a higher vibration…eventually allowing me to physically connect with the manifestations of my thoughts.

Today, I invite you to test this for yourself, by first remembering. Remember all of those things that bring you immeasurable amounts of joy…all those things that ignite that inner spark of creation, inspiration, passion, and life. Then I invite you to do one of those remembered things…fully surrendering to the experience…falling into the bliss…allowing the bliss to elevate you to a higher plane of existence. And then watch for the beautiful manifestations to come to you as you move through your life. When they do, take a moment to express gratitude and acknowledge this truth: you are a creator!